Great piece by Sama Yhia covering some of our work on weird fly chromosomes, this work was lead by Christina Hodson and @KamilSJaron knowablemagazine.org/article/living…

Hi I’m a PhD student from Max Planck Institute for Ornithology. I’m excited to share our findings published at pnas.org/content/119/4/…. With Francisco J Ruiz-Ruano Alexander Suh 서상재 et al. we found the songbird germline-restricted chromosome (GRC) can occasionally be inherited from the father

Wow! Our paper about germline restricted chromosomes in fungus gnats was mentioned in a blurb in Science science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…. Glad these amazing little flies are getting some attention! @KamilSJaron Laura Ross

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1/2 A new #preprint #OpenScience #PeerReview by PCI Evolutionary Biology: Jaron KS et al. Genomic evidence of paternal genome elimination in the globular #springtail Allacma fusca. bioRxiv doi.org/10.1101/2021.1… The University of Edinburgh Biological Sciences | University of Edinburgh Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (inactief) Czech Academy of Sciences

Excited to share this preprint of my latest work with Judith Mank on sex-biased gene expression at single-cell resolution. Sex differences in cell type abundance can bias inferences of differential gene expression and patterns of selection! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

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Come and join our lab as a postdoc! The project focuses on the evolution and molecular mechanisms of unusual chromosome behaviour in fungus gnats, a clade of flies with arguably the most complex chromosome system of any organism. elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat… deadline 20/6 please RT

@TomBooker12 and I are looking for a postdoc interested in the genomics of local adaptation. We hope to harness better information from gene genealogies in genotype environment associations. Please see docs.google.com/document/d/1iL… for more info. See me at #Evol2023 or email.

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Scientists thought the zebra finch genome was nothing out of the ordinary. But that was because they only sequenced muscle tissue from a male bird. When they looked at both sexes, they found a huge chromosome had gone missing. Find out more: geneticsunzipped.com/blog/2023/10/1…